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Barbara’s mother married a cousin of her late husband, but the Villiers family was ruined by the victory of the Parliamentarians and Commonwealth rule in England. Marriage Mismatch By all accounts Barbara was an outstanding beauty with long dark hair, deep blue eyes and sensuous features.
17 de oct. de 2023 · Barbara Palmer's lack of fortune limited her marriage prospects. Tall, voluptuous, with masses of brunette hair, slanting, heavy-lidded violet eyes, alabaster skin, and a sensuous, sulky mouth, Barbara Villiers was considered to be one of the most beautiful of the Royalist women, but her lack of fortune left her with reduced marriage prospects.
They were at Hampton Court by June 1835. All appear to be wholly by Lely’s own hand except Anne Digby, Countess of Sunderland (RCIN 404515) which is probably a studio copy. Barbara Villiers was Charles II’s principal mistress between 1660 and 1670 and the most powerful woman at court until she was supplanted by Louise de Kéroualle.
19 de ago. de 2015 · Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland, Countess of Castlemaine (née Barbara Villiers, 27 November [O.S. 17 November] 1640 – 9 October 1709), was an English royal mistress of the Villiers family and perhaps the most notorious of the many mistresses of King Charles II of England, by whom she had five children, all of them acknowledged and subsequently ennobled.
In 1659 Barbara Villiers had married Roger Palmer, later Earl of Castlemaine, although soon after she became King Charles II's mistress, exerting considerable political influence until her fall from favour in the early 1670s.
Barbara Palmer (née Villiers) Duchess of Cleveland, with her son, Charles FitzRoy, as the Virgin and Child By Sir Peter Lely, circa. 1664. Picture: National Portrait Gallery, London. FIVE ‘B ...
Oil painting on canvas, Barbara Villiers, Countess of Castlemaine and Duchess of Cleveland (1640-1709), by Sir Peter Lely (Soest 1618 – London 1680), circa 1662. A full-length portrait, seated, of the Duchess of Cleveland, facing the viewer, with her head resting on her right hand.
